Games that are explicitly targeted at the education market/for young children should teach good values. Of course, the flipside of this is that parents have a responsibility to only buy those types of games.
Myself, I'll take Grand Theft Auto, where the only thing I've learned is that flamethrowers are joyful.
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What do you think of reading all these comments from people who go out of their way to say they don't care?
And have you ever actually gotten high off the 'Tussin?
Razzle Dazzle camo made no attempt to hide a ship or make it harder to see. As the linked article says, the effect is to make it hard to identify the type of ship (by breaking up its lines) and to make it difficult to determine the direction of movement ("Which end is the bow?"). All of this was a defense against U-Boats, IIRC, Dazzle was eventually discontinued as camouflage because it actually made ships easier to spot from the air. The "haze grey" color of modern ships may not look like camouflage, but it was chosen because it makes them harder for airplanes to see.
I imagine that speed is based on the maximum efficiency of the engine. It's only half the cruising speed of an airliner (which is also determined by efficiency, but those engines are a lot more powerful).
Voyager was flown by Burt Rutan's brother, Dick, and Jeanna Yeager (no relation to Chuck) in 1986.
As for the responsiveness issue, I bet that's why they delayed the flight for so long because of weather. To get clear skies for the first few hours. GlobalFlyer's service ceiling is listed as 50,000 feet, which should put it above the weather for most of the flight (Voyager was unpressurised and could fly no higher than 11,000 feet, and so was much more subject to the weather).
GlobalFlyer's takeoff weight of 22,000lbs is more than six times its empty weight, so once some of that fuel is gone it will be able to use a much shorter runway.
The closest thing to what you describe is Helios, the autonomous solar-powered aircraft mentioned by the other commentor, though even at 100,000 feet it'd be awefully easy to shoot down with modern missiles. A more conventional round-the-world airplane like Voyager or Global Flyer has to be so light weight it would be useless as a spyplane, those cameras and their optics are BIG.
16 megs is still a bit much for a PC if all it is used for is office work. Hell, my dad's computer has two megabytes of Intel Extreme! graphics. You don't need any more than that unless you play games, and even that is enough for any game made before 1998.
If you have a G3 iBook (and only a G3 iBook), you can use the iCook utility to control the processor speed. I haven't tried it, but the site says you can underclock the processor to as slow as 300mhz.
It's failed for me. I've seen a few popups in Firefox (and Safari) this week, for the first time since I've used those browsers. Fortunately, Adblock sometimes keeps the messages from appearing, so all I get is a blank window. But it's still annoying.
The article says that Atlantis is being prepped simultaneously for a possible rescue mission. I doubt it actually be on the other pad when Discovery launches, but how realistic is it for NASA to set up another launch on two weeks' notice?
True, but I think the idea is that if enough CRPs actually pay for something, the price will eventually come down to something moderately well-off Crazy People can afford.
So I guess the question is, are there enough Crazy People with enough $$$ to sustain this? Safety may play a role in determining that- if this thing kills a few CRPs, the rest might get less crazy all of a sudden.
Even if the space hotel fails, a (relatively) very very cheap reusable launch vehicle might be of interest to anyone with a satellite.
Most entrepreneurs fail, so I don't know how well this will turn out. Still, most innovators are a bit nuts, and crazy rich people built this world, so more power to them.
On the safety side, deaths from civilian spaceflight are inevitable. I doubt it will be much less safe statistically than NASA, though if successful on a large scale, civilian launches could easily surpass the number of humans put into space by governments (around 500 or so, I think).
Governments and insurance companies will want to regulate this business. Only time will tell how the public will react after a passenger shuttle blows up or burns up. Crashes haven't stopped the airline industry, though they have hurt its bottom line.
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It's different from Iran in a pretty fundamental way:
In Iran, when the government cracks down on free speech, the result is Iranians going to jail.
In America, when the government cracks down on speech, the result is more political speech.
Any law that attempts to regulate free speech will be ignored, with no consequences that aren't embarrasing to the government.
That's not a contribution, that's just poking a dead body with a stick.
Sony makes some nice looking computers. Never owned one, though. And the nicest case for a do-it-yourselfer I've seen is the Lian-Li PC-6070.
Games that are explicitly targeted at the education market/for young children should teach good values. Of course, the flipside of this is that parents have a responsibility to only buy those types of games.
Myself, I'll take Grand Theft Auto, where the only thing I've learned is that flamethrowers are joyful.
What do you think of reading all these comments from people who go out of their way to say they don't care?
And have you ever actually gotten high off the 'Tussin?
Razzle Dazzle camo made no attempt to hide a ship or make it harder to see. As the linked article says, the effect is to make it hard to identify the type of ship (by breaking up its lines) and to make it difficult to determine the direction of movement ("Which end is the bow?"). All of this was a defense against U-Boats, IIRC, Dazzle was eventually discontinued as camouflage because it actually made ships easier to spot from the air. The "haze grey" color of modern ships may not look like camouflage, but it was chosen because it makes them harder for airplanes to see.
I imagine that speed is based on the maximum efficiency of the engine. It's only half the cruising speed of an airliner (which is also determined by efficiency, but those engines are a lot more powerful).
Voyager was flown by Burt Rutan's brother, Dick, and Jeanna Yeager (no relation to Chuck) in 1986.
As for the responsiveness issue, I bet that's why they delayed the flight for so long because of weather. To get clear skies for the first few hours. GlobalFlyer's service ceiling is listed as 50,000 feet, which should put it above the weather for most of the flight (Voyager was unpressurised and could fly no higher than 11,000 feet, and so was much more subject to the weather).
GlobalFlyer's takeoff weight of 22,000lbs is more than six times its empty weight, so once some of that fuel is gone it will be able to use a much shorter runway.
It already installs spyware: the Viewpoint Media Player. Hint: if it says "no spyware" on a company's homepage, they make spyware.
The closest thing to what you describe is Helios, the autonomous solar-powered aircraft mentioned by the other commentor, though even at 100,000 feet it'd be awefully easy to shoot down with modern missiles. A more conventional round-the-world airplane like Voyager or Global Flyer has to be so light weight it would be useless as a spyplane, those cameras and their optics are BIG.
That would probably freak out the Jews, too.
Heh...I know...I typed it into Google before replying just to make sure ;)
Panasonic chips and a Matsushita mechanism
So, which company is it?
16 megs is still a bit much for a PC if all it is used for is office work. Hell, my dad's computer has two megabytes of Intel Extreme! graphics. You don't need any more than that unless you play games, and even that is enough for any game made before 1998.
Consideracy theory? Is that like when you worry about people being nice to you?
Really? Gee, I'd better take the Crucial RAM out of my iBook, wouldn't want OSX to find out the dirty little secret that I'm a cheapskate.
If you have a G3 iBook (and only a G3 iBook), you can use the iCook utility to control the processor speed. I haven't tried it, but the site says you can underclock the processor to as slow as 300mhz.
It's failed for me. I've seen a few popups in Firefox (and Safari) this week, for the first time since I've used those browsers. Fortunately, Adblock sometimes keeps the messages from appearing, so all I get is a blank window. But it's still annoying.
Anxiously awaiting a fix.
Pfft. Lazy ass, I use the stairs.
I believe that novel would be Xenocide.
The article says that Atlantis is being prepped simultaneously for a possible rescue mission. I doubt it actually be on the other pad when Discovery launches, but how realistic is it for NASA to set up another launch on two weeks' notice?
True, but I think the idea is that if enough CRPs actually pay for something, the price will eventually come down to something moderately well-off Crazy People can afford.
So I guess the question is, are there enough Crazy People with enough $$$ to sustain this? Safety may play a role in determining that- if this thing kills a few CRPs, the rest might get less crazy all of a sudden.
Even if the space hotel fails, a (relatively) very very cheap reusable launch vehicle might be of interest to anyone with a satellite.
Heh. "Now serving the East Coast and the orbital hotel."
Most entrepreneurs fail, so I don't know how well this will turn out. Still, most innovators are a bit nuts, and crazy rich people built this world, so more power to them.
On the safety side, deaths from civilian spaceflight are inevitable. I doubt it will be much less safe statistically than NASA, though if successful on a large scale, civilian launches could easily surpass the number of humans put into space by governments (around 500 or so, I think).
Governments and insurance companies will want to regulate this business. Only time will tell how the public will react after a passenger shuttle blows up or burns up. Crashes haven't stopped the airline industry, though they have hurt its bottom line.